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When the economy goes to pot, we the people place our faith in one indisputably sexy commodity. It's the lone bright spot on Wall Street and a rallying cry for the riotous right. So as the Ron Pauls of the world dream of a return to the gold standard, we sent our intrepid correspondent to the Klondike, where a new gold rush is on and rumors of a mother lode have everyone acting a little feverish read more

How far would you go to help your son fulfill his dream of having a child? What if that son fell into a coma, from which you know he'll never emerge? Would you reach inside him to extract and preserve his legacy? If you were Nik Evans's mother, you would—and you'd start a paternity fight unlike any the world has ever seen read more

Come election season, no place is more important than New Hampshire—or so its self-inflated voters, endorsement-peddling reps, spoiled press corps, and pandering candidates would have you believe. (Romney didn't buy a house here for the foliage.) Reid Cherlin, Obama's 2008 New Hampshire spokesman, returns to the Granite State circus read more

...Or at least his daughters. Mary Anne, Liddy,
and Abby may not be able to save Jon Huntsman's presidential campaign, but their Funny or Die-style videos, planking photos, and @Jon2012girls Twitter (what's a Mormon girl have to do to land a date with Tagg Romney, anyway?) are the most entertaining commentary on an outrageous election season read more

Nope, not Ah-nold. On January 1, 2011, Andrew Cuomo rolled into the perpetually dysfunctional city of Albany, New York, and did something truly shocking: He delivered on his campaign promises. Here, in his first major interview since taking office, the nation's most popular governor tells Lisa DePaulo what it's like to grow up as the Son of Mario, how he pushed gay marriage into law, and whether we can start printing those CUOMO FOR PRESIDENT bumper stickers read more

The artist Ai Weiwei—photographer, architect, gambler, orchestrator of installations, organizer of happenings, troublemaker, mad tweeter—was one of China's most outspoken dissidents. He tested the bounds of free speech, as if daring Beijing to silence him. This spring, Beijing took the dare. Since his release from police custody last June, he's remained under virtual house arrest, forbidden from blogging, tweeting, and giving interviews to the foreign press. In this exclusive excerpt, GQ's Wyatt Mason tries to pay him a visit read more

They are notorious for, and can never escape, a crime they didn't commit. Eighteen years ago, three teenagers in Arkansas were falsely accused of the murders of three young boys. It was an astounding abuse of justice, and it was all caught on film, in a series of HBO documentaries that gained a cult following and led celebrities like Johnny Depp and Eddie Vedder to take up the cause. Suddenly released this summer, the West Memphis Three are now free to pick up their lives—if they can even find them read more